steppenwolf1984 Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 I also experimented with trying to load ubuntu packages from the ubuntu install cd onto my kubuntu....no luck. Is Ubuntu one of those distros that are absolute heaven when youre on line and useless when you surf the net only sporadically? I'd like the option to upgrade online or add on from cds, even if its not the latest of the latest. Leave heat seeking to missiles, imho..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Well to add a CD with stuff to ubuntu just: sudo apt-cdrom add To add Gnome to your Kubuntu: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Also take a look here: http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Excellent link! One more question....Knowing that the Drake (ubuntu) is on its way, would it make sense to set up an ubuntu system with Kubuntu Hedgehog as the base and (if it would work) packages from Ubuntu (which Im afraid might be Warthog)?!? Or wait till the latest release and get a Kubuntu version of the newest? Would an upgrade to the latest be painless or is it better to just install the new one clean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 As it's less painfull to upgrade a .deb based distro than a .rpm distro there's a chance that something goes wrong. I have heard of successfull upgrades and unsuccesfull upgrades. My advise is to make clean install. You could also just running the (k)ubuntu you have now and order the newest (k)ubuntu. It's free and you don't even have to pay for the mail. By the way it's not called Drake in ubuntu :). It's called Synaptic Package Manager:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 I meant the latest version, Dizzy Drake...or Drafty Drake or whatever animal is next on the list Given the havoc Im wreaking in the Mepis rooms, I may need to install Kubuntu sooner than later...I just hope it doesnt wreck my nice new dual boot Mepis/Fedora if I install it over Mepis.... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 As it's less painfull to upgrade a .deb based distro than a .rpm distro... Isn't that some kind of long-running myth? Last time I fresh-installed Mdv on my main PC, it was Mandrake9.1. Since then, I have upgraded (from CD) to 10.0CE, and upgraded using only urpmi up to 2005LE (and soon 2006:)) After all this, my heavily customized PC still runs everything OK. The only manual thing I had to do was to add "devfs=nomount" to my kernel strings Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Wow, can you imagine then how painless a deb upgrades gonna be?!...... :woot_jump: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 (edited) As it's less painfull to upgrade a .deb based distro than a .rpm distro... Isn't that some kind of long-running myth? Last time I fresh-installed Mdv on my main PC, it was Mandrake9.1. Since then, I have upgraded (from CD) to 10.0CE, and upgraded using only urpmi up to 2005LE (and soon 2006:)) After all this, my heavily customized PC still runs everything OK. The only manual thing I had to do was to add "devfs=nomount" to my kernel strings Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yes it is a myth. My mdv le 2005 was also upgrade via urpmi from ML-9.1 ...oh, and I didn't have to do anything, anywhere. Oh, except when I upgraded with a screwy cooker, but it fixed itself. Edited September 15, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 16, 2005 Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 (edited) So what are you all ubuntists going to do now when imho the last trumpcard has been used? I mean, Mandriva 2006 has SMART with exactly the same look as Synaptic. apt-get is no longer an excuse to use Ubuntu Edited September 16, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 16, 2005 Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 Ubuntu have me *Still got the ubuntu spirit inside me* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 So what are you all ubuntists going to do now when imho the last trumpcard has been used? I mean, Mandriva 2006 has SMART with exactly the same look as Synaptic.apt-get is no longer an excuse to use Ubuntu <{POST_SNAPBACK}> apt-get was never an excuse to use Ubuntu....but its GNOME is, and has always been, a great reason to use ubuntu :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 Hmm... well, Gnome in Ubuntu is as tweaked as Mandrivas Gnome. Okay, Ubuntu has a newer Gnome release. But I get that with Fedora, too and it ain't tweaked. ;) btw: I will try the next Ubuntu release. Maybe it will work better with my hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> bvc, please ask your punk friend to stop doing that to Dr. Banana! This is a family board you know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 Hmm... well, Gnome in Ubuntu is as tweaked as Mandrivas Gnome. Okay, Ubuntu has a newer Gnome release. But I get that with Fedora, too and it ain't tweaked. ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> which is exactly why I use ubuntu. Much more usable and integrated after it is tweaked right by a good distro ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 ... Much more usable and integrated after it is tweaked right by a good distro ;)Well, that is very debatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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